Bill Maher: Jared Loughners Chalkboard Likely Looks Like Glenn Becks Chalkboard

Bill Maher is a loon
Anderson Cooper took a very different tack last night in trying to make sense of the Arizona shooting tragedy from the weekend. While many on Cable News were turning down the partisan Rhetoric, AC360 producers booked comedian Bill Maher, who was unafraid to compare the imagined mindset of alleged assailant Jared Loughner with Fox News host Glenn Beck, while at the same time calling for responsibility in the media. Huh? Cooper opened by asking about the soul searching and finger pointing that cam...

Bill Maher is a loon
In case you had any doubt, allow this to remove it once and for all: Anderson Cooper took a very different tack last night in trying to make sense of the Arizona shooting tragedy from the weekend. While many on Cable News were turning down the partisan Rhetoric, AC360 producers booked comedian Bill Maher, who was unafraid to compare the imagined mindset of alleged assailant Jared Loughner with Fox News host Glenn Beck, while at the same time calling for responsibility in the media. Huh? Cooper...

First Comes Fear
By ROBERT WRIGHT NYT People on the left and right have been wrestling over the legacy of Jared Loughner, arguing about whether his Shooting Spree proves that the Sarah Palins and Glenn Becks of the world are fomenting violence. But it’s not as if this is the only data point we have. Here’s another one: Six months ago, police in California pulled over a truck that turned out to contain a rifle, a Handgun, a shotgun and Body Armor. Police learned from the driver — sometime after he opened

My Take: Is Arizona shooting an individual or shared sin?
Editor's Note : Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor. By Stephen Prothero , Special to CNN After the shooting, the vitriol. First came the thunder from the left, blasting the right for creating a climate of hatred in which taking out your Glock and aiming it at a congresswoman might seem to be the next logical thing to do. Then came the thunder...

No More Mister Nice Blog
Glenn Beck THINKS I'M A PSYCHOPATH From the Open Letter posted by Glenn Beck on his Web site: All evidence points to the fact that the assailant from this weekend was severely mentally disturbed. His belief system was not rational by any modern political standard. He was an atheist, believed George W. Bush was responsible for 9/11, feared a global currency, cited the Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books and thought the Mars rover landing was staged. These are not the opin...

Bill Maher: Psycho Killers Chalkboard Likely Looks Like Glenn Becks Chalkboard
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Mahers Offensive Rant About Loughner Sets New Low
Anderson Cooper took a very different tack last night in trying to make sense of the Arizona shooting tragedy from the weekend. While many on Cable News were turning down the partisan Rhetoric, AC360 producers booked comedian Bill Maher, who was unafraid to compare the imagined mindset of alleged assailant Jared Loughner with Fox News host Glenn Beck, while at the same time calling for responsibility in the media. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, exc...

Bill Maher Rips Right's Rhetoric
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Bill Maher: 2007 vs Today On Inciting Violence And Hate
Bill Maher appeared on Anderson Cooper last night to condemn the hate filled Rhetoric from the right, but what did Maher say about Dick Cheney 2007? townhall.com/tipsheet ...

Angle defends herself, tea party
Former Nevada Republican Senate Candidate Sharron Angle is blasting those blaming her for inciting the Arizona shooting that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others, saying the accused shooter went off the deep end long before the Tea Party movement started. In her first comments - coming three days after the shooting - Angle said in harshly worded statement that her critics were “dangerous and ignorant” and charge it was irresponsible to blame the political right for...

Apocalyptic Rhetoric
The Rhetoric of violence is not the only kind of Rhetoric that encourages violence. The apocalyptic Rhetoric we’ve seen from some on the right, most notably Glenn Beck, should be part of this discussion too. When Beck portrays Barack Obama as the head of a Socialist/Communist/Nazi Conspiracy whose goal is the literal destruction of America, he is implicitly encouraging violence. If that really were the nature of the administration, and our liberty really were on the verge of being snuffed ...

Blaming Tucson on the right wing is easy, but inaccurate
A quick dose of reality over all the jawboning about whether people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and Fox News are really causing the things that led to a 22-year-old shooting a Congresswoman in the head and Murder six people in cold blood, including a 9-year-old child. I'm not absolving Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Mark Levine or any of these people (since that's who the left is --um-- targeting) from their daily spewings. But here's the facts:    The average age of a FOX News...

Forget civility. How about more truth in politics?
In the wake of last weekend’s horrific shooting, many observers have weighed in with both trenchant and idiotic takes on what the incident means and doesn’t mean. There has been some wonderful stuff — George Will, the National Journal’s Kathy Kiely and Josh Kraushaar, to name a few — along with gigabytes of left and right Jabberwocky. But as I have reflected on the tragedy, while marveling at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ resilience, my reaction has gradually metamorphosed fro

In the Crosshairs
Commentary by Julie: Sharron Angle: "I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and Bear Arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the Military. This not for Law Enforcement. This is for us. And in fact when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny. This is for us when our government becomes tyrannical . . . Well it's to defend ourselves. And you know, I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the ...

Bill Maher says Glenn Beck's nutty and like the Giffords shooter, Jared Loughner
 Bill Maher says Glenn Beck’s nutty and like the Giffords shooter, Jared Loughner. It is now open season beyond the shadow of a doubt on all Conservatives, at least from the standpoint of many liberals. Each day after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting has brought with it increasingly shocking Defamation by liberals looking to turn the murderous tragedy of Giffords’ shooting into a poorly calculated political opportunity. The latest shameless liberal to jump on the desperate attack...

Snippets of Revelation.
Snippets of Revelation by digby Anderson Cooper interviewed Bill Maher tonight, playing Devil's Advocate to Maher's strong denunciation of Right Wing violence. It's worth watching on the rerun if you care to. This was a highlight: Cooper: I'm reading biographies of Lincoln and Jefferson and Lincoln had horrible things said about him when he was president, really vicious, vicious stuff. Maher: Sure, and look what happened to him. Cooper: well... Maher: yeah, and we saw how that ended. I guess ...

What Did Influence Jared Loughner?
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey Hardly an hour had passed after the first sketchy news broke on Saturday that there had been a horrific shooting attack in Tucson, Ariz., at a public event held by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, when the liberal media began reporting the incident in a way that suggested it was somehow linked to modern American politics -- as practiced by Conservatives. At 1:53 p.m. Tucson time on Saturday, The Associated Press released a story reporting the identi...

Bill Maher: Exclusive Footage From New Season (VIDEO)
Bill Maher has returned from a holiday hiatus and given us a Sneak Peek into his newest slew of hilarity. Take a look at our exclusive footage below, which includes commentary on "Sarah Palin's Alaska," the war on Christmas, Congress's Lame Duck session, Julian Assange and Boehner's tears, among other timely events worth his two cents. WATCH: ...

VIDEO: Add Bill Maher to the Blame Massacre on the Right Crowd Predictable
It’s strange how someone can be so spot-on about Islam and Israel, yet so wrong and so utterly loathsome on everything else.  But, hey, you know about the broken clock’s rate of correctness:  twice a day.  Everything Bill Maher says here is sooooo predictable and such complete BS. As we all know, the shooter at the Tucson Safeway massacre, Jared Loughner, was a lot like Bill Maher-an atheist who liked to watch MSNBC and say obnoxious things-not like any of ...

Bill Maher on the Constitution and the Tucson Shooting
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A Fool With a Badge is Still a Fool
Michael Reagan, FloydReports.com When a would-be assassin shot my Dad, President Ronald Reagan, nobody questioned the fact that the shooter was certifiably nuts. Authorities recognized that fact and put him in a mental institution as his obvious disturbed mental state demanded. Now we have another attempted killing of a public official, Arizona’s widely admired Rep. Gabby Giffords, and just about everybody recognizes the fact that the shooter, one Jared Loughner, is crazy as a loon. Moreover...

Shielding Congress From the People
When the Rhetoric about the Rhetoric dies away, lawmakers will still yearn to do something -- anything -- to prevent another shooting like the tragedy in Arizona last weekend. Or more accurately, they will yearn to have a record, come campaign season, of having tried to do something. A shiny piece of heavily bullet-pointed campaign lit is an underappreciated motivator for political behavior. What are their options? They've tried stifling Speech and banning guns and scary-sounding gun components....

The Nature of Someones Delusions Is Affected By Culture
Yes, it’s true, it’s really really true, and it’s not all that difficult to understand. Really. A leading expert in Mental Illness tells me that asking whether the Arizona shooter’s violent behavior might have been partly triggered by the nation’s political climate is a wholly appropriate line of inquiry — even if the shooter is found to be insane. “It’s a reasonable question to ask,” Dr. Marvin Swartz, a psychiatry Professor at Duke Univers...

Why Wasnt Loughner Committed?
What to make of Jared Lee Loughner’s reading list? His Internet rants and his political leanings? Answer: not much. In my other life, I’m a physician, and one who often deals with chronic Mental Illness. Obviously, I’ve never interviewed Jared Loughner, nor have I had the opportunity to speak to his friends and family. But given his age, his paranoid views, and his behavior, the suspect seems to be very mentally ill. Media reports are a dime a dozen and, with such a hot topic, qualit...

Angle: Media 'inappropriately attributing blame' for Tucson shooting
Former Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle denied her campaign Rhetoric helped motivate the Tucson gunman and accused the media of "finger-pointing towards political figures" to boost Ratings. Angle's suggestion during the midterm campaign that voters could pursue "Second Amendment remedies" to settle political differences with Congress has been widely criticized in the wake of the attack that left six people dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition. "I have consiste...